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What is the Future of Concrete in Architecture?
ArchDaily ^ | October 23, 2019 | Niall Patrick Walsh

Posted on 10/25/2019 11:28:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Concrete is the second-most used material on earth. It is also the second-largest emitter of CO2, with cement manufacturing accounting for 5 to 7 percent of annual emissions. The continued popularity of concrete as a material of choice in the design and construction industry, coupled with increasing unease of the environmental consequences, has put concrete firmly in the spotlight of innovation and experimentation. As a result, designers, architects, and researchers around the world are generating multiple visions for what the future of concrete in architecture could look like.

Concrete has been a material of choice for architects and builders for thousands of years, with the earliest known use dating from Syria and Jordan in 6000BC. Its low cost, versatility, fast application, and sheer familiarity to those involved in using it means that roughly 22 billion tons of concrete are poured every year. According to a recent BBC study, production of cement has increased thirtyfold since 1950, and a further fourfold since 1990, driven in part by postwar building in Europe, and building booms across Asia from the 1990s onwards. It is predicted that to keep pace with demands in South East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, cement production may have to increase by 25% by 2030.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: architecture; cement; concrete; construction
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So cancel all everything and then they’ll be happy?


41 posted on 10/26/2019 3:51:05 AM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Communists LOVE concrete! So another issue where we’ve come full circle I guess. Commies and concrete, except for commies and carbon now conflicting.


42 posted on 10/26/2019 4:06:52 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: Tax-chick

First we will tear down the roads and homes and schools and factories of the peasants. Only after that will we deal with the concrete problems of the communist elites in the cities.


43 posted on 10/26/2019 4:13:46 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Concrete will be around as long as cheap illegal labor is available to work it.


44 posted on 10/26/2019 4:22:08 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hopefully one day we will replace concrete buildings with buildings made from plastic recycled from the Pacific trash island. /s


45 posted on 10/26/2019 4:23:36 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: AndyJackson

Oh, of course. That goes without saying!


46 posted on 10/26/2019 4:26:01 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Down with the ChiComs! Independence for Hong Kong!)
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To: Viking2002

That’s funny. I tell my lefty acquaintances, “when the socialists get their way “I’m going in to the prefabricated mud hut business”. They look at me like I have 3 heads.


47 posted on 10/26/2019 4:27:47 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: VTenigma

That’s because they’re too intellectually bereft to connect the dots. They’re lemmings. Drone worker ants. No sense of self or individuality. They chirp off the Leftist talking points that make themselves feel good, like magpies. Do you really think what they believe is for ‘the good of the people’? They don’t really give a flying f**k at a rolling donut about their fellow travellers unless there’s a common goal involved. Give them what they want, and they’ve already moved on to the next windmill to tilt.


48 posted on 10/26/2019 4:35:05 AM PDT by Viking2002 (WARNING: Eating too much oatmeal can make you look like Wilford Brimley.)
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To: jonascord
There are too many locally connected highway construction companies that depend on constant road repair and replacement contracts, let by someone's brother-in law with the county highway commission, for the US to build durable interstates, let alone secondary roads.

I've believed this for years. It's how Democrats get union votes, too.

49 posted on 10/26/2019 4:44:13 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the video")
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To: Viking2002

They don’t really give a flying f**k at a rolling donut about their fellow travellers unless there’s a common goal involved.


Of course they don’t. When I confront them about their own greed and hypocrisy I always get the same answer, “I’m weak”.


50 posted on 10/26/2019 4:47:19 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hard to beat concrete for strength/durability/cost - I once hear an old guy who had been in the business for over 50 years remark that concrete aged and got stronger for the 1st hundred years and then slowly deteriorated for the next hundred years...I have no idea if that’s true but have had a hell of a time busting up some 25 year old concrete slabs...even w/o rebar or fibers holding them together.


51 posted on 10/26/2019 4:50:37 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More climate radicalism.


52 posted on 10/26/2019 5:12:52 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: fproy2222
This is a one time out gasing. Cement lasts may years without additional out gasing.

It's a hoax why even play that game? "Out gasing" is used by climate radicals.

CO2 levels are at an almost historic low.

53 posted on 10/26/2019 5:15:39 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: AFreeBird

All concrete will cure under water. Temperature is the main factor in how long it takes for the concrete to cure. Water will be a giant heat sink and slow the curing rate down considerably, but it will cure eventually.


54 posted on 10/26/2019 5:23:14 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Snook79

In Kenya they build their villages with manure. I think that is what the left wants us to do instead.
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Hmmmm...sounds like a plan. ;-)


55 posted on 10/26/2019 5:42:11 AM PDT by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTL)
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To: central_va

“Out gasing” is used by climate radicals.”

It is also used by people with allergies caused by being near some uncured products like fresh concrete.


56 posted on 10/26/2019 5:54:47 AM PDT by fproy2222 (In America today, womb lynching, the killing of innocent babies in the womb, is legal.)
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To: rdcbn
"Caves - they are the future."

Sod... The elites at the UN want us all back into mud huts... They, of course, have other plans for themselves..

57 posted on 10/26/2019 6:07:36 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: gundog

A friend of mine spent a year in the Stans commanding a unit that spent much of its time purchasing concrete and gravel for Afghanistan.

He said it was his first deployment without a gun and with more business suits than uniforms


58 posted on 10/26/2019 6:09:05 AM PDT by cyclotic (Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: Cvengr
You left out rain. Oregon keeps trying to tax us on the rain that hits our property, and is diverted to streets and storm drains. Also, Odungo's EPA went after any and all extraction resource like Nazis.. There was a local quarry that was fined out of existence. All it took was strict adherence to OSHA and EPA rules already on the books, and huge fines were levied.

I know the drill. I was just commenting on the unseen carbon footprint of concrete. Most jobs are relatively small, and therefore require a plant set up within an hour or two of the site, which means a lot of plants, and a lot of trucks. Mixing your own in remote locations is doable, but you still have to get the heavy materials to the site.

59 posted on 10/26/2019 6:16:23 AM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: Equine1952
"The by far longest lasting material I used and what gave me the most bang for my buck was the concrete."

What I find most interesting is "aerated concrete." I've also heard it called autoclave concrete.. If I were young and ready to build again, that would definitely be my first choice..

60 posted on 10/26/2019 6:18:18 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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